Any application that’s served over the web is a cloud application. yeah, even the one hosted in your backyard connected to the internet.

The moment someone says cloud application if you imagine those 3 cloud service provider then that’s the success of their product but your understanding has to be reviewed 🙂

containerization, microservices, agile, devops are all can’t be a limiting factor to declare an application as cloud-native. please don’t look for a checklist to tick. if you decided to incorporate service provider specific features into your application that’s cloud-specific app development than cloud-native.

cloud-native is an app/service distribution strategy. containerization, microservices, agile, devops may come in as part of the strategy and that’s the starting point and NOT the end.